Invitation to Join PSOM Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) Membership

Dear Core Facility Directors,

In these unprecedented times, the value of collaboration, shared experience, and community are extremely important. In this spirit, we are pleased to announce that PSOM is sponsoring an organizational membership to the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) – just in time for you to register for this year’s virtual annual meeting (see details below).

The ABRF is a membership association with more than 700 members working in or providing support to resource and research biotechnology laboratories.  Members represent hundreds of laboratories and administrative offices across government, academia, research, industry, and commercial settings. The ABRF promotes the education and career advancement of scientists through conferences, a quarterly journal, publication of research group studies and conference travel awards. The society also sponsors multi-center research studies designed to help members incorporate new biotechnologies into their laboratories.

We encourage you to visit the ABRF website (https://www.abrf.org/), and to kindly contact April Weakley (aweakley@pennmedicine.upenn.edu) if you would like to the join the organization at no charge to you via our recently obtained organizational membership.

As an added bonus, individuals covered under our membership will be charged a discounted rate of $99 when registering for the upcoming 2021 ABRF Virtual Meeting, to be held March 7^th-11^th.

Please click here to register for this event.  To receive the discounted rate, register as a member of the PSOM Biomedical Core Facilities organization.  Please note the event registration ends at 12pm EST on March 4^th, 2021.

Please feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns.